New lights warn drivers

9:55 AM,
Feb. 5, 2013

Caution lights on Ambassador Caffery Parkway that were recently installed to warn drivers about the approach to the road's stop light at its intersection with Cameron Street are seen Monday afternoon in Lafayette.

Written by

Nicholas Persac
npersac@theadvertiser.com

Local officials asked for a warning light at the steep overpass on Ambassador Caffery Parkway near Cameron Street five months before a motorcyclist died in a crash there.

Those lights were installed only eight days after the crash. But Tony Tramel, director of Lafayette Consolidated Government's Traffic and Transportation Department, said the new flashing signals were not erected in response to the death last month of Christopher Clement Jr., 24, of Lake Arthur.

"People will perceive that, but it's not true," Tramel said. "This set of flashers was in the pipeline all along." ...